cast aspersions

cast aspersions

To talk negatively or unflatteringly about someone or something. I'm sorry to cast aspersions on Julie, but her work ethic is really terrible. She hasn't handed one assignment in on time!Bill says that he doesn't want to cast aspersions on anyone, but he still talks badly about us all the time!

We don't mean to cast aspersions of the serviceability of components received from Numrich or your budding abilities, but small, flat springs can be very prone to breakage if improperly heat treated or roughly mishandled.

A letter from Jack Wall, the chairman of the board of regents, delivered to Ransom on Tuesday notifying him of Friday's meeting said Ransom's "decision to ignore, disregard, or violate" directives from the board not to cast aspersions on the proposal or the flagship campus had "caused considerable disruption and undermined [his] leadership.

US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may have been eager to cast aspersions on the character of the nation that welcomed him to its shores yesterday, by questioning our readiness to hold the Games and the reception the athletes would receive.

that state and local law enforcement agencies are being trained by individuals who not only do not understand the ideology of violent Islamist extremism, but also cast aspersions on a wide swath of ordinary Americans merely because of their religious affiliation," wrote Lieberman and Collins, who are the chairman and ranking Republican of the Homeland Security and Govern mental Affairs Committee.

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